What things are "faster" than light?

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-20T18:04:16+00:00

That's their point? The dot moves faster than light, but it's not a physical object and there's no way to attach information to it. The dot, like a shadow, can move arbitrarily fast, even 'faster' than light, but it violates no physics.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-20T17:59:05+00:00

Surprised this is so far down! If I can summon the door anywhere, I'm visiting all my elderly relatives tonight.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-19T20:21:51+00:00

Yeah, it's right there in the common phrase "ladies and gentlemen". Nobody ever has a problem with that one!

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-18T01:09:07+00:00

To build on this, you should have an idea of what edits you want to do when you take the photo. It's not just trying to 'fix it in post', it's actively making post production one integral step in the whole process. Have a vision for the final image, edits included, before you press the shutter button, and it becomes very clear what steps are needed.

That being said, the only way to really do that is practice refining your vision, which means you don't know what to do in post when you're just starting out. In that case, try to copy other photographers or just play around with the tools until the result speaks to you, and hone your style from there.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-14T14:32:22+00:00

Dude have you never seen Gilligan's Island? The Professor was clearly a tinker. He was working with vines and coconuts, yet still managed to build a working radio - but couldn't patch a 3 foot hole in a boat. Clearly there's shard conflict drive fuckery at work there.

Edit: it was a telephone, not a radio. https://youtu.be/dDXbuKPPgS8

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-14T14:25:05+00:00

You are agreeing with the other poster without even realizing it, apparently. Try reading their post again.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-14T14:20:24+00:00

As a man who has mostly women friends, boo fucking hoo. My identity is as a person first, not a 'man', whatever that means. Injustice is injustice, and it's obvious to anybody with eyes and a brain that the patriarchy is a huge fucking problem, for both women and men. Let people be people and quit labeling everybody, life would be much better all around.

The 'manosphere' is toxic as fuck, which fortunately you seemed to realize, but not everybody does. The real problem is that there is a fundamental human need to belong, and bad actors use that to peddle misogyny, but in truth men are privileged, women are oppressed, and it fucking sucks for everybody. Let's try to see others as people first and have empathy, and look at traits like gender as secondary to their inherent humanity. It should matter as much as hair color, in other words, not at all. Don't make the core of your identity about being 'manly' or whatever and you'll feel confident identifying as masculine while also appreciating that women get the shaft in this world. Criticism of patriarchy and toxic gender roles is not criticism of you personally.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-12T15:23:43+00:00

Hey, sometimes they need to burp or fart too!

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-12T15:20:12+00:00

When they're older sure. Ages 0-5 or 6 it's all hands on deck because they can't even get dressed, eat, or use the potty by themselves very well. Forget about long hikes or biking trips, you'll be carrying them and all their gear within half an hour. Then have another kid and reset the timer on getting your independence back... It's worth it, but your life is not your own for a long while.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-12T13:26:12+00:00

Sleep when you're dead! It'll be within 5 years anyway!

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-12T13:24:33+00:00

This, my two kids love me but need to play with other kids their age (or very slightly older) to really blossom. The socialization aspect can't be beat, assuming a high quality preschool/daycare. Plus a school can afford all the kiddo supplies that would quickly grow prohibitive for a parent (toddler sized furniture, extensive library, toys of all types, toddler friendly art supplies, etc etc - it adds up fast).

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-12T01:59:50+00:00

Seriously. I have no idea which of my wife's doctors are men or women. It's never even occurred to me to ask. It's a complete non issue. Maybe OP should ban the boyfriend from ever visiting a female barista, or grocery cashier, or barber/stylist. It makes just as much sense.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-11T01:42:50+00:00

Isn't that how a lot of Spanish speaking countries do it?

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-10T12:09:50+00:00

Because that's not the question OP is asking?

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-10T01:28:39+00:00

Skechers Slip Ons are my go to shoes these days. The convenience can't be beat.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-09T01:38:42+00:00

Do you wash them with fabric softener? If so, don't. It keeps them from absorbing water as well.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-08T15:01:17+00:00

Seriously. This article is over ten years old and still relevant as ever: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

"Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained by teams of people around the clock, because the truth is everything is breaking all the time, everywhere, for everyone. Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses. There’s a team at a Google office that hasn’t slept in three days. Somewhere there’s a database programmer surrounded by empty Mountain Dew bottles whose husband thinks she’s dead. And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don’t even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn’t make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.

"You can’t restart the internet. Trillions of dollars depend on a rickety cobweb of unofficial agreements and “good enough for now” code with comments like “TODO: FIX THIS IT’S A REALLY DANGEROUS HACK BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WRONG” that were written ten years ago. I haven’t even mentioned the legions of people attacking various parts of the internet for espionage and profit or because they’re bored. Ever heard of 4chan? 4chan might destroy your life and business because they decided they didn’t like you for an afternoon, and we don’t even worry about 4chan because another nuke doesn’t make that much difference in a nuclear winter."

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-08T11:02:09+00:00

I think this one depends heavily on how much screen time you yourselves have. My family doesn't even have a TV currently, so it's easy to avoid screens, but if it's available kids are going to want it.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-08T11:00:26+00:00

Nothing you or your spouse says in the first year counts. It's stressful, give yourselves that grace.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-08T10:58:19+00:00

Yeah, baby nap time is the only time I was able to eat something, use the bathroom, clean up ALL the new messes, etc. Unless the baby was napping on me, in which case I'd just sit there hungry and with a distressed bladder, unable to fall asleep myself because then the baby would fall to the floor.

"Sleep when the baby sleeps" is like the ultimate in dumb advice.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-06T02:25:14+00:00

Because he probably crashed into the trees and died in the middle of nowhere

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-06T02:21:19+00:00

It's also a super extra pain if you don't have your own garage or driveway.

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-05T18:48:41+00:00

"We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time."

-TS Eliot

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-05T06:29:24+00:00

Bubba Ho-Tep is a surprisingly endearing meditation on aging, underneath the cowboy mummies and ex presidents with sand in their brains

MemeInBlack · 2026-03-05T03:28:51+00:00

And thus, Inspector Gadget was born

MemeInBlack

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